William Rounseville Alger
7 quotes.
Quotes by William Rounseville Alger
- A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring.
- Aphorisms are portable wisdom.
- Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
- False eloquence is exaggeration, true eloquence is emphasis.
- The flower that we do not pluck is the only one that never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
- The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
- The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little.